[nurettin]

The demand for cushy white collar desk jobs (which weren't around 30 years ago) is crashing. Rest of the world, not so much.

[ralph84]

30 years ago was the middle of the .com boom and white collar jobs had been around for a century already. White collar employment started with the industrial revolution and really took off during the post-WWII boom.

[elromulous]

Cushy white collar desk jobs were not around in the mid 90s?

[new_account_100]

Nope, Most American workers were just auto plant workers and soybean farmers until the internet was invented in 1991.

[dyauspitr]

Figure has been doing a 75 hour live stream of it actually replacing a real job and it has that AI magic where it has gestures and movements that seem emergent. They’re coming for anything manual in less than 2 years.